Re: David qua David

David Peterson wrote:
>     I came up with what I think is a really neat-o, nifty sound system
>that
>lead to some other nifty, neat-o things today for a language I'm calling
>zidaen (ae=a in "cat".  I alway forget how you guys do that one).  Anyway,
>here she is:
>
>Vowels: [u], [u:], [ae], [ae:], [i], [i:], [y], [y:], [I], [I:], [E], [E:],
>[R], [R:] (this last one is that err vowel in "bird", "herd", "curd", et
>cetera)
Since the vowel I have in "bird" etc is a plain old schwa, I assume you've
got something different? Retroflex schwa [@`] ? [R] is a consonant in SAMPA
...

                                                  Andreas
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